So is it just me that can’t help giggling when s/he gets in the lift, presses the ground floor button and the recorded, sultry-voiced female
Year: 2008
More alone than usual
Somehow it feels that I’m more alone than usual this week. Yes, I’m in London but my house back home is empty. Sophie is also
Unpredictably predictive
As I sit here cutting CDs for distribution to various music industry personages (a necessary but boring task), my mind wanders to the vagaries of
Today people pissed me off
I had a meeting first thing in Southwark. It’s an easy ‘get to’ from the house in Brixton – about 25 minutes door to door.
Loving CD Baby
Taking a leaf out of my own book I’ve just bought ‘Slowburn‘ by the brilliant Brighton-based band (ah, such alliteration!) Anemo. Shying away from the
Changing my jodhpurs now
Vin and I went out for a hack around the Worcestershire countryside this afternoon. We got to the top of Horton Hill when something appeared
Awake (and not wanting to be)
Our slut next-door neighbour staggered home about an hour ago and, for some bizarre reason that could only make sense to her alcohol-consumed brain, began
The cost of information security
In the last nine months in this country, the personal data of: * 25,000,000 child benefit recipients has been lost * 7,685 drivers in Northern
Keeping an eye out for Noah
You know. I’m not religious or anything but that rain out there? I know it’s the tail end of an Atlantic storm but if it
The thing about writing and music is
If it was as easy as all that, we’d all be best-sellers, right? In the writing world: I’ve read excellent published work But I’ve also
Sorry love, Eventin’s off
So Vinnie won’t get to stretch his legs over Cleobury Mortimer this Sunday after all. Unsurprisingly it’s been cancelled due to the ground being waterlogged.
Not quiet. Busy.
Have I really not blogged since Thursday? That simple fact makes it sound as if I’ve just got bugger all to do but that’s so
Desert Island Meme
Stone me. Tagged by LizSara! And now something interesting is expected? But, but, but, but… I have drunk. Alcohol. Tinto de Verano to be precise.
And Lo! There was Much Work on Ye Podcaste Website
and He looked upon it and declared it good. But not in a smug kind of way It’s been a busy night, but hey, I
That’s me in the corner
not that I had too much religion to lose in the first place… The thing with technology is that it will always fail just when
Horsey horsey won’t you stop
Beating up my little pony! An equine in the same turnout as lovely Vin is beating him up. Let’s be clear on a couple of
Time for a break
I started this week with a resolve to take breaks every now and then, get up, stretch my legs, drink tea and just get back
Servicing the normals will be resumed as soon as
That just sounds so wrong now, but it was really funny in my head ten minutes ago! We went out last night, the Soph and
SpamAlert (no, just a stalker)
A flag pops up on a protective database, the flag reads: repeated activity from ip address: 81.153.126.* Opens a command prompt and does a reverse
Taking the heat out of the situation
Did you know that in 1906 the average temperature on London’s Bakerloo line was approximately 14c? What is it today? 21c. Anyone who uses London’s
Llifogydd: Canslo gwyl rasus
Mae’r gwaith clirio wedi dechrau ar ôl llifogydd sydyn ddydd Mercher. Cafodd Gwasanaeth Tân ac Achub y Canolbarth a’r Gorllewin eu galw i helpu pobl
Gig review; Earth Calling Alice, Atticus, Birmingham, Sunday 17th August 2008
On Sunday evening we drove up to Birmingham to see Earth Calling Alice perform at Atticus in Bearwood. The gig was organised by an outfit
Ignorance is not bliss, it’s just ignorant
If you heard that an aircraft had crashed you wouldn’t say ‘must have been a pretty awful steward’, would you? If you heard that a
Gig review; The Razorbax, Bar Academy, Birmingham, Friday 15th August 2008
There were three bands on. Unfortunately we missed the first act – Regus – but arrived while the second band, Barkerhound, were setting up. Let’s
Homesearching for 2×2 legs and 1×4 legs
We spent all day yesterday covering mileage in Oxfordshire. Not good, because my programme was a little too ambitious. We viewed three houses and four
Depression bites
I wondered if it would, had dared to think I might have got away with it. But today, from the moment I woke up, I
In the land of the blind, the one eyed man…
… is wearing just one contact lense. Bugger. My right lense rolled up underneath my eyelid and it’s broken now. The lense, not my eyelid.
Would you like some cheese with your fromage?
I am sitting in the kitchen in London thoroughly enjoying myself. I’m previewing tracks for the next podcast. I never thought I’d say this, but
A mouthful of warm salty gunk
I’m afraid so, he said with a malicious glint in his eye. You’re going to open your mouth and take it like a man. He
Known unknowns
As that nice Mr Rumsfeld* said. We spent yesterday in Oxfordshire on a mission, shopping for a new home. We made lots of notes about
Going anywhere on your holidays?
I had my hair cut on Saturday. I go to a place in Worcester out of habit. Soph and I used to live in a
Google stats
I love the internet! This is what you (or perhaps people like you. Or perhaps people unlike you) have been googling over the last two
This is weird and irrational but…
**edited** Move along, move along, there’s nothing to see here. Come on folks. Move along. Haven’t you got homes to go to? And thanks HF.
Jordan can’t ride
Look people, can we just get one thing straight? All of the stories in the media about ‘celebrity’ Jordan (aka Katie Price) aiming for a
I love reading but
No, not the town in Berkshire where Colin lives; I mean the activity that involves the printed word. So yeah… I love reading but, is
I’m fine. Really.
I only look like this when I’ve had my fill of mankind but it doesn’t actually mean anything. Other than just looking like this. I
Berrington Hall – not eventing (2)
Yeah, withdrawing was so the right thing to do! A text arrived this afternoon from the yard: Good news!* Emma found quite a lot wrong
Who do I complain to about the quality of porn?
We all get spam, sooner or later – varying degrees of it. Some email accounts (and/or ISPs) have clever filtering software that discards the stuff,
Berrington Hall – not eventing
A day of mixed fortunes and there’s good and bad to be taken home. We were given, as you’re probably aware, some lovely times; a
Podcast stats
Ah, the joys of having one’s own hosted site and multiple database products. On that last point. SQL-Server’s operating overhead has really come down in
What would Churchill say?
Winston Spencer, the wartime British leader. Not the monosyllabic puppet dog off of the insurance adverts from the actual television* Churchill famously said, on the
BT’s Broadband. Now with less broadband!
I’ve written a complex SELECT statement for database A which sits on server 1. I’ll take the results and merge them in to database B
Eventing? That would be nice!
Provided I don’t screw it up (as I did at Stafford by starting the show jumping before the bloody bell went!) I have our times
Horsebox for sale
Note to regulars: sorry about the advert! Horsebox for sale. I’m never going to own more than one competing horse again so my lovely, large
Laughing out loud
Gargoyle’s thoughts on condoms and marketing slogans… B.